Music & Tech
Alex G and Mac DeMarco's Primavera Sound Sets Canceled
The Barcelona festival have said they are "monitoring the situation" and will keep fans updated
Alex G and Mac DeMarco’s sets at Primavera Sound cancelled due to “adverse weather conditions”
The Barcelona festival have said they are "monitoring the situation" and will keep fans updated
U.K. Music Tech Industry Advocates for Support at SXSW London
The trade association hosted a takeover at the U.K. conference and festival earlier this week.
Remember ‘Say No To Suno’? Someone just hired a plane to fly it over an AI investor summit… featuring Mikey Shulman.
Its location in the skies was significant – directly over the UBS AI in Entertainment Summit at the Shutters on the Beach hotel, where Suno CEO Mikey Shulman was among the speakers. Source
SXSW London: U.K. Music Tech Sector Calls for Greater Recognition and Funding: ‘We Want to Get Something Done’
The trade association hosted a takeover at the U.K. conference and festival earlier this week.
CISAC sets out objectives for protecting human creativity amid “rapid advancements in AI”
CISAC used its General Assembly in Paris today to launch a new declaration - the Paris Commitment - via which creators call on policymakers and the industry to ensure “human creativity” is “protected, respected and sustained” as “rapid advancements in AI risk undermining the value of creative work”
beyerdynamic Names Jesse Dean Managing Director Of The Americas
beyerdynamic has named Jesse Dean as Managing Director of the Americas, putting a longtime pro audio and creator-tech executive in charge of the brand’s business operations, sales strategy, and regional growth across North and South America. Dean brings more than 25 years of experience across profes
Audioscenic Gives Lenovo Legion 7a A New Spatial Audio System
Audioscenic’s new partnership with Lenovo is interesting because laptop audio usually has a pretty obvious ceiling. You can get louder drivers, better tuning, wider stereo tricks, and software presets, but the sound still tends to feel tied to the physical size of the device. Audioscenic is trying t
Canada walks back plan to make US audiovisual streaming services pay a bigger Canadian-content levy
The measures were announced by Marc Miller, Canada's Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages. Source
Feedback MTUK x AFEM: Music Tech Pitch Competition
Feedback is Music Technology UK's recurring pitch competition for music tech founders. AFEM is teaming up with MTUK on this one to put electronic music labels and publishers at the centre of the room.
Streaming services celebrate as Canadian government scraps streaming levy plan and announces alternative $600 million cultural funding package
The Canadian government seems to have scrapped the controversial streaming levy which would have seen a 5% levy charged on music and video streaming services. Instead it is committing to introduce “federal investments” of $600 million a year to support Canada’s audio and audiovisual sectors
Director Criticizes AI in Creativity
“If I could snap my fingers and make generative AI disappear forever, I probably would"
Meta’s Supernatural VR music-fitness app isn’t dead after all
In January this year, Meta announced that its virtual-reality music fitness service Supernatural – which it had once battled regulator the FTC to acquire – would not be receiving any new updates or content. That seemed to be the death knell for the app, which offered a catalogue of workouts accompan
TikTok US launches a new app for ‘major cultural milestones’
TikTok’s US operation is launching a new standalone app, TikTok Pro Events, which it says will “deepen community immersion during major cultural milestones”. It’s starting with the obvious one: the men’s football World Cup, which kicks off this month in the US, Mexico and Canada It will be the focus
Suno raises $400m funding and teases its first licensed model
Speculation about a monster funding round for AI-music firm Suno has been running rife in recent months, but yesterday the official announcement came: a $400m Series D round which Suno said valued the company at $5.4bn. This means Suno has more than doubled its valuation in little over six months, a
‘Backrooms’ director Kane Parsons criticises AI as “cultural rot” that “defeats the purpose entirely” of creativity
“If I could snap my fingers and make generative AI disappear forever, I probably would"
Reaper DAW gains popularity through user enthusiasm
If you’ve never given Reaper much thought, it might be time to look again. The DAW is gaining fans at remarkable speed and it’s all happening by word of mouth
Grand Theft Auto 6 fans investigated by police near game studio
“We now have a five star wanted level in real life”
“I used to think that Reaper was a joke. If I saw someone using it, I would assume they're not serious”: How Reaper is taking over the production world one enthusiastic user at a time
If you’ve never given Reaper much thought, it might be time to look again. The DAW is gaining fans at remarkable speed and it’s all happening by word of mouth
Universal Music makes minority investment in Thai distribution and publishing company Solution One
S1 was founded in 2001 by CEO Karlcharn Kongkatong and co-founder Apsornsopha Sariman. Source